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| the transference of a right, interest, or title, or the instrument of transfer; a transference of property to assignees for the benefit of creditors |
| to state or declare under oath or affirmation, usually in court |
| manslaughter (ˈmænˌslɔːtə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | law Compare murder homicide See also malice aforethought the unlawful killing of one human being by another without malice aforethought |
| 2. | (loosely) the killing of a human being |
The unlawful killing of a person, without malice or premeditation. Involuntary manslaughter is accidental, such as running into someone with a car. Voluntary manslaughter is committed in the “heat of passion,” as in a spontaneous fight in which one person is killed by a strong blow. Manslaughter is usually considered less serious than murder. Both murder and manslaughter are types of homicide.
manslaughter
in Anglo-American criminal law, a category of criminal homicide that generally carries a lesser penalty than the crime of murder. Different legal systems use different criteria to distinguish the kinds and degrees of unjustified killing. See homicide.
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